The first public display in more than a century of the corpse of Spain’s beloved saint who died 440 years ago has split opinion, with some inspired and deeply moved, while others see it as macabre voyeurism.
The body of Saint Teresa of Avila is on public display for the first time since 1914. Nearly 70,000 people have travelled from across Spain and as far away as Ascension Island to see St Teresa, reportsThe Times of London. For the past two weeks, the saint’s corpse, with the skull resting above the habit of her order and reposed in an open silver coffin, has been exhibited in the Basilica of the Annunciation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Alba de Tormes, in northwestern Spain.
